CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -A disease outbreak is endemic when it is consistently present but limited to a particular region. This makes the disease spread and rates predictable. Malaria, for example, is considered endemic in certain countries and regions.

Detailed explanation-2: -AN EPIDEMIC is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region. A PANDEMIC is an epidemic that’s spread over multiple countries or continents. ENDEMIC is something that belongs to a particular people or country.

Detailed explanation-3: -Recap. Whereas an outbreak usually refers to a disease that has broken out in a limited region, a pandemic is one that affects large numbers of people-typically across the world. An epidemic falls between the two; it is an outbreak that is actively spreading and may have potential to become a pandemic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Endemic: A characteristic of a particular population, environment, or region. Examples of endemic diseases include chicken pox that occurs at a predictable rate among young school children in the United States and malaria in some areas of Africa.

Detailed explanation-5: -Epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area. Outbreak carries the same definition of epidemic, but is often used for a more limited geographic area.